Suchergebnisse
Filter
3 Ergebnisse
Sortierung:
Three Scottish Cousins in East India Company Service, 1792–1804
In: Journal of Scottish historical studies, Band 38, Heft 1, S. 160-177
ISSN: 1755-1749
This article studies three first cousins, James Thomas Grant, George Cumming, and Henry Mackenzie, who arrived in India in 1792, 1793, and 1797, respectively. Born in the 1770s, the same decade as Scott, none of the cousins reached their thirtieth birthday, and though none of them died in battle, Cumming left behind huge debts, Mackenzie owed money to a Calcutta lender, and Grant chose not to return to Scotland, where, in due course, he would have succeeded to a considerable estate and become the head of his clan. Their history is used to examine Walter Scott's idea of India as a corn chest, a fabulously rich society whose wealth could be squeezed
Antigone's Changed Punishment: Gynaecology as Penology in Sophocles' Antigone
In: Australian feminist studies, Band 18, Heft 40, S. 7-16
ISSN: 1465-3303